I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Do I dare set forth here the most important the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time but to squander it.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

When I was a kid I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

From time to time I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died when I went through a divorce and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.

We have the character of an island nation: independent forthright passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Live daringly boldly fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.